In an ongoing series of Lego-made sculptures, Ekow Nimako imagines the legacies of past sub-Saharan civilizations into the distant future.
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Zadie Xa Leads Visitors on an Urgent Environmental Adventure
Moon Poetics reminds visitors of their geological impact, and also that future survival depends on our transformative action.
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A Funhouse Mirror Telling of Canadian History
The Twentieth Century is a surreal, irreverent anti-biopic of Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
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Artist Discovers a Looted Statue in a Canadian Museum’s Collection, Leading to Its Repatriation
After Divya Mehra uncovered the colonial history behind a misidentified 18th-century statue, the Mackenzie Art Gallery repatriated it and acquired Mehra’s work about the figure in its stead.
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The Fallacies of Whiteness
Divya Mehra offers a complex view of race and identity that supplants the myth of a monolithic Other.
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A New Feminist Art Collective Raises Awareness for the Labor of Motherhood
44.4 Mothers/Artists Collective is making space in Ottawa and the Outaouais region for artists who are mothers, who have been habitually overlooked in the art world.
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Can You Apologize to an Entire Indigenous Nation?
Is public apology a practice that should be abandoned, or should it be reimagined? Looking at AA Bronson’s “A Public Apology to Siksika Nation” provides some guidance.
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What Does it Mean to Make a “Postcapitalist” Film?
Isiah Medina’s Inventing the Future and Mike Hoolboom’s Judy Versus Capitalism posit different ways for movies to work outside traditional aesthetics and structures.
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Three Films to Stream for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
These films tell stories of resistance, trauma, and healing without relying on tired stereotypes.
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Gallery Partners With Florida Rights Restoration Coalition to Help People Vote
700,000 citizens who completed prison time and parole in Florida may be ineligible to vote. With only a week until Florida’s bail payment deadline, the New York-based gallery Canada wants to help.
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Ousted Director of Montreal Museum Sues Its Board for Defamation
Nathalie Bondil, who was dismissed from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in July, is claiming $1.5 million in punitive and moral damages.
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Our Top Picks for the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival
Highlights to catch at its first virtual edition include Spike Lee’s David Byrne documentary, a strong slate of Indigenous-led films, and a look at the FBI’s efforts to defame Martin Luther King Jr.